Democrats need alternative to Brown

Published Saturday December 29, 2012 at 6:00 am

With Sen. John Kerry taking Hillary Clinton’s job as Secretary of State, I hope the Democrats come up with a decent alternative to Scott Brown.

We have too much at stake. The World Bank tells us global warming will make our planet uninhabitable by the end of century. Our Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid which so many depend on are on the chopping block. A Republican Supreme Court set a terrible precedent with the Citizen’s United decision allowing unlimited campaign spending.

This country is falling into Third World-dom as unions get busted and jobs outsourced. And without decent affordable health care for all, 40,000 people will continue to die due to lack of coverage, and millions more will suffer from need of medical care. We need people with vision in Washington if we’re to avoid falling off the doomsday cliff.

I hope they don’t resurrect some party hack, but give this country a chance with someone like Jim McGovern or Ed Markey. Or wouldn’t it be nice if folks took the Green Party seriously?